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OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. 



was educated at Shrewsbury School and at 

 Balliol College, Oxford, and was called to the 

 bar of the Inner Temple in 1838. He contested 

 Hereford as a Liberal in March, 1869, on the 

 vacancy caused by the unseating of Mr. Clive 

 and Mr. WyUie, and sat until 1874. He was 

 the author of " Talpa, or Chronicles of a Clay 

 Farm," an "Inquiry into the History of Agri- 

 culture," and other writings. 



HOWABTH, HENBY, a British minister ; died 

 in August, 1876. He graduated B. A. at Cam- 

 bridge in 1823, when he was " senior optime," 

 and was afterward elected a Fellow of St. 

 John's College. He took holy orders in 1824, 

 was Hulsean Lecturer at Cambridge in 1835- 

 '36, and was appointed Rector of St. George's, 

 Hanover Square, in 1845, and Chaplain in Or- 

 dinary to the Queen in 1855. 



HOWE, GEOEGE AUGUSTUS Louis FBEDEEIO 

 CUEZON, Ear], a British peer, born January 16, 

 1821 ; died February 3, 1876. He was mem- 

 ber of Parliament for South Leicestershire 

 from 1857 to 1870, when he succeeded his 

 father. Dying without male issue, he is suc- 

 ceeded by his brother, Major-General Richard 

 Curzon, born in 1822. 



HULSSE, JULIUS AMBEOSIUS, a German scien- 

 tist, born May 2, 1812 ; died June 26, 1876. In 

 1850 he was appointed director of the Poly- 

 technic School in Leipsic, and in 1863 was 

 created chairman of the Technical Commission 

 which was to aid the Ministry of the Interior 

 in the consideration of technical questions. 

 He was the author of " Allgemeine Maschinen- 

 Encyclopadie," " Die Technik der Baumwoll- 

 spinnerei," and " Die Kammgarnfabrikation." 

 He also edited new editions of Vega's mathe- 

 matical tables. 



HYLTON, Baron, Sir WILLIAM GEORGE HYL- 

 TON JOLLIFFE, a British statesman, born De- 

 cember 7, 1800; died June 3, 1876. He was 

 in Parliament for Petersfield in 1830 and 1831, 

 and again from 1837 to 1866, wasUnder-Secre- 

 tary of State for the Home Department during 

 the Earl of Derby's administration in 1852, 

 and Patronage Secretary to the Treasury from 

 1858 to 1859. He was created a baron in 

 1866. 



ISABELLA MARIE, Princess of Portugal, born 

 July 4, 1801 ; died April 22, 1876. She was 

 the great-aunt of the present King, and had 

 been Regent of Portugal from March 10, 1826, 

 to February 26, 1828. 



ISTOMIN, CONSTANTINE IvANOVITCH, a RuS- 



sian admiral ; died October 14, 1 876. He had 

 seen considerable service, and had distinguished 

 himself in a number of battles, particularly at 

 Navarino in 1827. At the time of his death 

 he was President of the Supreme Military 

 Tribunal of the Navy. 



JELINEK, KAEL, an Austrian meteorologist, 

 born October 23, 1822; died October 19, 1876. 

 He studied mathematics and natural sciences in 

 the University of Vienna, was appointed Pro- 

 fessor of Higher Mathematics in the Polytech- 

 nic Institute in Prague, and in 1863 Director 



of the Central Institute of Meteorology and 

 Magnetism of the Earth in Vienna. He was 

 one of the leaders in the movement for an in- 

 ternational meteorological congress, and was 

 elected a member of the permanent committee 

 of the congress held in Vienna in 1873. He 

 was a member of the Bohemian Diet, was 

 appointed in 1864 a member of the Council of 

 Instruction, and from 1870 to 1873 was the 

 head of the section for technical high-schools 

 and commercial schools in the Ministry of Edu- 

 cation. 



JOSEPHINE, ex-Queen of Sweden, born in 

 1807 ; died June 7, 1876. She was a daughter 

 of Duke Eugene of Leuchtenberg, and had 

 been married to King Oscar I. She was the 

 mother of the present King, Oscar II., as well 

 as of the preceding one, Charles XV. 



KEATINGE, RICIIAED, a British lawyer, born 

 in 1793; died in February, 1876. He was 

 educated at Trinity College, Dublin, was called 

 to the Irish bar in 1813, and obtained the 

 honor of a silk gown in 1835. In 1842 he 

 was made Queen's Sergeant in Ireland, and in 

 the following year elected Bencher of the 

 King's Inns, Dublin, and promoted to the judi- 

 cial bench as Judge of the Prerogative Court, 

 and of the Court of Probate, which positicns 

 he held up to his death. 



KEMPER, I. DE BOSCH, a Dutch political 

 economist; died October 23, 1876. He had 

 been a member of the Second Chamber of the 

 Netherlands, and was the author of works on 

 political economy, and other subjects. 



KING, RICHARD, a British explorer; died 

 February 11, 1876. He was the companion of 

 Sir George Back on his journeys to the North- 

 ern Ocean in 1833, 1834, and 1835. He was 

 also the author of several geographical and 

 medical books, and was the founder of the 

 Ethnological Society in London. 



KIRSNER, LUDWIG, a German politician ; died 

 September 6, 1876, at an advanced age. He 

 was one of the oldest and ablest members 

 of the National Liberal party in Baden. He 

 belonged to the Second Chamber of Baden 

 since 1849, and was its vice-president from 

 1861 to 1871, and then its president. He was 

 also elected to the Customs Parliament (Zoll- 

 parlament), and to the first German Reichstag, 

 and was forced to decline a reelection on ac- 

 count of ill health. 



KOCH, H. A., a German scholar, born Au- 

 gust 26, 1829 ; died January 20, 1876. He 

 studied in the Universities of Halle and Got- 

 tingen, and, after having filled various positions 

 in different gymnasia, became prorector at the 

 gymnasium at Frankfort-on-the-Oder, and in 

 1866 professor at Pforta. He is well known 

 by his editions of the Roman classics, particu- 

 larly of Cicero. He also contributed valuable 

 articles to the Eheini&che Museum, and other 

 philological journals. 



KOHL, FRIEDEICH, a German technologist, 

 born December 20, 1811 ; died April 12, 1876. 

 He had been teacher at the industrial schools 



